Pensions Lawyer

6 days ago

London, Greater London, United Kingdom Gowling WLG Full time

About Gowling WLG's Pensions Team

Gowling WLG's pensions law team is a multi-award winning group of around 50 pensions lawyers. We pride ourselves on being good people to work with and offering:

• Expert advice that goes beyond just information or legal opinions

• Plain language explanations

• High technical standards

We invest heavily in training and development for our lawyers, which is a key part of our profile as a pensions team. We regularly win awards for being a good place to work, for our diversity initiatives, and for how we handle trainees and training contracts.

The team operates across two UK offices, with roughly equal numbers in Birmingham and London. We advise a wide range of clients, including employers, trustees, the Regulator, the PPF, NEST, insurance companies, actuarial firms, Master Trusts, and other industry players.

We have a strong track record of advising on cutting-edge matters, such as:

  • The legal review of the Regulator's Toolkit
  • The PPF's review of its socially responsible investment adviser mandate
  • The first ever auto-enrolment compliant cash balance scheme (at Morrisons)
  • BMW's longevity swap
  • Advising the Trustees of both L&G Schemes on entering into an Assured Payment Policy (APP) with L&G
  • The £2.4bn Philips buy-out
  • NEST's initial website structure and member interactions documentation
  • The £320m asset backed funding structure using intellectual property assets for GKN
  • Many of Rothesay Life's largest buy outs
  • Several leading cases, including Steria, Sea Containers, Virgin Media, Britvic, and Axminster
  • Cutting-edge public sector pensions work, including rewriting the entire public sector pensions legislation for the Isle of Man and developing the retention of employment model for managing the effects of TUPE in the context of Health Service Pensions

We have a partner and two PSLs focused on excellence and making sure our lawyers are the best they can be. We offer a hybrid approach to office and remote working, a lawyer bonus, generous annual leave, private medical insurance, a generous pension allowance, life assurance, and a range of health and wellbeing programmes.

Main Duties and Responsibilities

This role will involve acting for trustees of pension schemes, providing advice on a wide range of pensions law, including:

  • Day-to-day advice to trustees of pension schemes
  • Scheme change exercises
  • The impact of corporate re-organisations and negotiating appropriate mitigation
  • Scheme documentation
  • Impact of legislative changes, including changes resulting from case law (GMP equalisation)
  • Scheme mergers
  • Scheme wind ups
  • All aspects of risk transfer
  • Liability reduction exercises
  • Investment issues, including investment management agreements

We like our lawyers to develop their own personalities in the pensions market and, as a senior lawyer in the team, you would be expected to be involved in business development and profile raising as well as pure legal work.

Key Skills and Experience

The ideal candidate for this role will be a qualified Solicitor with 6+ years' PQE. Key skills and experience include:

  • A track record of advising trustees of large occupational pension schemes and large employers on pensions matters
  • Managing and supervising junior lawyers to provide an excellent service to clients
  • An excellent understanding of the principal provisions of relevant pensions legislation
  • Building and maintaining long-term client relationships
  • Participating in client development events
  • A clear understanding of the importance of accurate and efficient financial management
  • Involvement in a broad range of marketing and profile raising initiatives
  • Experience of writing technical articles and presenting seminars and other briefing sessions

We would look for the successful applicant to have solid organisation and time management skills, experience of working in a team, and the ability to develop relationships with colleagues and clients alike.

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